Download Fragmented Worlds.East and West

Fragmented Worlds: The
Middle Ages in East and West
The Byzantine Empire
I. Maintaining Romanness in a multicultural
world
II.
The Reign of Justinian (527-565)
Nika Revolts 532
Church: Hagia Sophia (537)
Law: uniform law for empire
Corpus Juris Civilis
III. Expansion and Decline of Empire
Maintaining Romanness in a multicultural world
The Reign of Justinian (527-565)
532: Nika Revolts
Church
Eastern Church and orthodoxy
Hagia Sophia (537)
Society and Politics
Bribery and limits on women’s status
Powerful bureaucracy
Taxes, expansion, and building projects
Codification of law
Uniform law for Empire based on precedent
Corpus Juris Civilis
Mosiac of Emperor Justinian (527-564)
Hagia Sophia
A.D. 537
I. Maintaining Romanness in a multicultural world
II. The Reign of Justinian (527-565)
532: Nika Revolts
Church
Eastern Church and orthodoxy
Hagia Sophia (537)
Society and Politics
Bribery and limits on women’s status
Powerful bureaucracy
Taxes, expansion, and building projects
Codification of law
Uniform law for Empire based on precedent
Corpus Juris Civilis
Theodora (d. 548), Wife of Emperor Justinian
III. Byzantine Empire: Gradual
Decline
•Persian invasions: Jerusalem (614)
and Egypt (619)
•Siege of Constantinople by the Avars
(626)
•Defeat of Byzantine army by the
Bulgars (670)
•The decline of urban life
Europe at the death of Justinian, 565
IV. The Rise and Development
of the Islamic World
Background
Muhammad as Prophet
Islamic Beliefs
Spread of Islam
Islamic Scholarship
The Rise of Islam
•Bedouins before the 7th century
•Muhammed (c. 570-632) and the Qur’an
•Monotheism:
•“no divinity but God and Muhammed is the Messenger”
•Hegira the journey from Mecca to Yathrib (Medina)
•and back (622)
•The five pillars of Islam: Faith, prayer 5 times daily, zakat
(alms), fast of Ramadan, pilgrimage to Mecca
Ummah = community of believers
Koran in the
majestic Kufic
script (7th or 8th
century)
The five pillars of Islam:
Faith (shahadah)
Prayer (salah)
Charity (Zakat)
Fast of Ramadan (9th month of Islamic calendar)
Pilgrimage to Mecca (hajj) (629)
Ka’ba
Black
meteorite in
Mecca
624: Badr
629: Mecca
Islamic Conquests
Battle of Badr 624 (control of Mecca)
 Conquest of Palestine and Persia by 637
 Seige of Constantinople 674
 Conquest of Visigothic kingdom by 711
 Battle of Poitiers/Tours 734

Growth of Islam by Eighth Century
Martel turns back Muslims at Poitiers by 732
•Scientific and cultural
contributions to the West
•Inquiry and Islam
Philosophy
Ibn Sina 980-1037
Mathematics
Al-Khwarizmi book
on “Al-jabr”
Science
Navigation
Astrolabe
Family of AlAsturlabi
Measures
altitude of sun
to calculate
time and
latitutde
Illustration of
constellation,
Andromeda C, in
Al-Sufi, Book of
Images of the
Fixed Stars (964)